Elly, here are answers to your questions

Hi, Elly,

I meant to tell you at the outset that the nutritional analysis given for each recipe is per serving - sorry.

I'm under the impression that the Parkay "Buttery Spray" should be used only to spray on top of foods (whether dry foods or moist foods), whether cooked stovetop, oven, etc. I also use it to saute vegetable ingredients after spraying my pan with vegetable oil spray since it adds a nice buttery flavor (I love butter!). I use some type of healthy margarine (such as "I Can't Believe It's Butter" "Light Margarine" in stick form) for uses other than that.

I have to admit, I've never paid a great deal of attention to the nutritional analysis of a food other than to look at calories and fat content, and this only after the middle ages started showing its effect!

My husband just a few days ago surprised me with a cookbook program called "MasterCook" (which you can get right here at TKL) that I'd told him about after seeing it mentioned many times by people using TKL. I don't understand it fully yet, but I remembered seeing where you could obtain the nutritional analysis of a particular food item - such as powdered egg whites and crablegs! Elly, a cup of powdered egg whites has a whopping 1325 mg of sodium (402 calories, 0 gr fat, 0 mg cholesterol)! And one crableg (they only listed Alaskan King crablegs) has 1438 mg of sodium (144 calories, 1 gr fat, 72 mg cholesterol)!

Would you like me to give you some other dessert alternatives, such as a pound-cake type dessert, or lemon bars (I think I saw acceptable recipes for both of these)?

As far as a crablegs alternative, would you like some appetizer alternatives? One suggestion: you and your husband might want to try something I've seen in the seafood department of my local grocery store called crab surimi seafood chunks. I've never tried this product, which is an imitation seafood product, but the MasterCook analysis showed that 28 grams of this product contains 27.7 calories, 0.3 gr fat, 8 mg cholesterol, and 40 mg sodium.

Let me know,

Janet

P.S. You don't sound dumb, but you do sound like a good cook!